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Instructions:
READ FOR UNDERSTANDING: Read Pages 1 to 16 in your textbook.
Define all the vocabulary words.
Address all the understandings by provide examples/ diagrams/ explanations for
each bullet point
Address the nature of science and essential ideas using your new
understandings.
Address the Skills by answering the Data-Based Questions on page 6
Essential idea:
The evolution of multicellular organisms allowed cell specialization and cell replacement.
Nature of science:
Application: Questioning the cell theory using atypical examples, including striated
muscle, giant algae and aseptate fungal hyphae.
Application: Investigation of functions of life in Paramecium and one named
photosynthetic unicellular organism.
Application: Use of stem cells to treat Stargardts disease and one other named
condition.
Application: Ethics of the therapeutic use of stem cells from specially created embryos,
from the umbilical cord blood of a new-born baby and from an adults own tissues.
Skill: Use of a light microscope to investigate the structure of cells and tissues, with
drawing of cells. Calculation of the magnification of drawings and the actual size of
structures and ultrastructures shown in drawings or micrographs. (Practical 1)